Django Django @ The Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 15 February

Django Django claim they have spent the past 18 months writing and recording the follow-up to their eponymous hit debut album; their attire tonight suggests they've been playing five-a-sides. The group have ditched their trademark matching t-shirts and take to the Liquid Room stage in a variety of early '90s polyester football shirts. Keyboard player Tommy Grace sports a slick West Germany away top, while singer Vincent Neff opts for a screamingly-loud Union Berlin strip that looks straight from the Kriss Akabusi school of fashion.

The playfully bright clash of shirts reflects Django Django's sound; multiple interweaving rhythm patterns drive surf guitar melodies and club-sized synths, as beautifully illustrated in rousing opening song Hail Bop. "It's great to be back in Edinburgh," Neff tells the audience on several occasions. "We've finished our new album..." he continues. "About fucking time," shouts back one punter. The group, now London-based, met as Edinburgh College of Art students and look delighted to be back in familiar territory and genuinely thrilled to be playing live again.

Several new tracks from forthcoming album Born Under Saturn are premiered tonight, including the dancefloor-friendly First Light and a cosmic-sounding Reflections, which indicate that the Djangos have lost none of their ability to fuse disparate influences to great effect. Predictably, it's the older material that gets the biggest reaction, including an extended Skies Under Cairo, and a floor-shaking Default, but the evident enthusiasm of both crowd and band tonight suggests it won't be long before the new material is welcomed to the fold. [Chris McCall]